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Entrepreneurs on Fire · 2025-03-15 · 24 min · 4,453 words

Crowdfunding From 500 Physicians Instead of 1 VC with Laurence Girard: An EOFire Classic from 2021

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Light that Sparkfire Nation, JLD here, and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire, the only daily show interviewing the world's top entrepreneurs seven days a week. Today we're pulling a classic episode from the archives and we'll be breaking down crowdfunding from five hundred physicians instead of one VC. To drop these value bombs, I brought to Lawrence Gerard and the EO Fire Studios. Lawrence is the CEO of Fruit Street Health, an online diabetes prevention program, where he has raised more than thirty million dollars from five hundred plus physicians. And today, Far Nation will talk about how you don't need venture capital to be a successful entrepreneur and how the only thing that ever changed the world was a small group of committed citizens. And shoot for the moon. If you miss, you'll land. And a big thank you for watching today's episode goes to Lawrence and our speech. Butters.

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